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Saturday, 22 February 2014

Bishop Borys is the President of the Ukrainian Catholic University, the only Catholic higher education institute in the former Soviet bloc, its founding Rector and now Bishop of the Eparchy of Ukrainian Catholics in France, the Low Countries and Switzerland. His presence in Kyiv has been an untiring encouragement to those building peace, justice and freedom. The following article comes from the Religious Information Service of Ukraine, a service offered by UCU.

On his Facebook page, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop Borys Gudziak has posted photos of EuroMaidan’s deceased heroes and urged for the creation of a “lives of the martyrs.”

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13). “I encourage everyone, especially journalists, to create a record of the lives of the martyrs who gave their lives for our dignity, for our liberty,” he writes.

Bishop Borys expressed the desire that the act of the victims in laying down their lives will lead to the restoration of the Ukrainian people's human dignity. “Let their witness, death, and eternal life be for us a source of understanding truth and a return to our dignity,” said the bishop.

On February 20 in Kyiv, 70 to 100 people were killed, and this is not the final figure. Among the dead was a lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Bohdan Solchanyk. A sniper’s bullet pierced his head.

Earlier the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration reported that 67 bodies had been delivered to the Bureau of Forensics. Of those killed, 9 died in hospitals. The Ministry of Health reported that 551 demonstrators received medical aid in the city’s hospitals. Three hundred and thirty-two were hospitalized.

Pray for the Unity of the Apostolic Churches

The Society of St John Chrysostom promotes greater appreciation of the spiritual, theological and liturgical traditions of Eastern Christendom, works and prays for the unity of the Churches of East and West, and encourages support for the Eastern Churches :

- the Byzantine and Oriental Catholic Churches in communion with the Apostolic See of Rome (especially in their contemporary calling to promote reconciliation and the recovery of union between Catholics and Orthodox)- the Orthodox Church- the Oriental Orthodox Churches and- the Church of the East.

In the United Kingdom and Europe the Society, founded in 1926, is a group of Catholics of the Latin and Eastern Churches, along with our friends in other traditions, promoting awareness and friendship in the Christian West for our fellow Christians of the East - through prayer and liturgy, conferences and lectures, pilgrimage and ecumenical encounters.